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<blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 1687163" data-attributes="member: 2855"><p>Actually, he has. Or somebody has. The remark was made that wotc normally sells more of its worst products than a smaller company can of a product that is equal to quality as wotc's best.</p><p></p><p>When sales enters the picture, in any degree, then you are saying that those companies with bigger marketing budgets deserve more attention or special consideration. The playing field is no longer level, no matter how much</p><p></p><p>Operative word there being "successful", not quality. There is a difference. Can a quality product be successful? Yes. Can a successful product be of good quality? Again, the answer is yes. Is a product being successful an automatic indicator that it is a quality product? No. Is a product being of good quality a garuantee that it will be successful? The answer here is no.</p><p></p><p>There is also different levels of success as well. For many smaller companies, the number of sales that equals success is much much lower than what a company the size of wotc or white wolf would consider a success. Those two companies are at least an order of magnitude larger than just about any other gaming company in business right now.</p><p></p><p>That difference alone would have tilted the scales in the favor of larger companies - because they have the marketing and distribution channels that smaller companies do not.</p><p></p><p>Well, that was a nice little attack you slipped in there. Nice to know that you can debate a topic without resorting to trying to put words in somebody else's mouth.</p><p></p><p>Note please that the Origins Awards are supposed to be an industry award for QUALITY, not an industry award quality AND SALES.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Those are all definitions of "sucessful", not definitions of "quality". One of the major fallacies in your theory derives from the way that the distribution and retail channels are setup. If a distributor does not want to carry a product (no matter how good it is), that means it will not get to as many retailers as a crappy product from some company who is carried by the distributor. This can mean that the products carried by the distributors, and thus carried by the retailers, are the ones the public gets to see more often than not. Thus what is carried by the distributors will often sell better than those not carried by distributors.</p><p></p><p>Thus, including sales in any capacity favors those products that have the marketing and distribution channels to get their products into the public spotlight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rasyr, post: 1687163, member: 2855"] Actually, he has. Or somebody has. The remark was made that wotc normally sells more of its worst products than a smaller company can of a product that is equal to quality as wotc's best. When sales enters the picture, in any degree, then you are saying that those companies with bigger marketing budgets deserve more attention or special consideration. The playing field is no longer level, no matter how much Operative word there being "successful", not quality. There is a difference. Can a quality product be successful? Yes. Can a successful product be of good quality? Again, the answer is yes. Is a product being successful an automatic indicator that it is a quality product? No. Is a product being of good quality a garuantee that it will be successful? The answer here is no. There is also different levels of success as well. For many smaller companies, the number of sales that equals success is much much lower than what a company the size of wotc or white wolf would consider a success. Those two companies are at least an order of magnitude larger than just about any other gaming company in business right now. That difference alone would have tilted the scales in the favor of larger companies - because they have the marketing and distribution channels that smaller companies do not. Well, that was a nice little attack you slipped in there. Nice to know that you can debate a topic without resorting to trying to put words in somebody else's mouth. Note please that the Origins Awards are supposed to be an industry award for QUALITY, not an industry award quality AND SALES. Those are all definitions of "sucessful", not definitions of "quality". One of the major fallacies in your theory derives from the way that the distribution and retail channels are setup. If a distributor does not want to carry a product (no matter how good it is), that means it will not get to as many retailers as a crappy product from some company who is carried by the distributor. This can mean that the products carried by the distributors, and thus carried by the retailers, are the ones the public gets to see more often than not. Thus what is carried by the distributors will often sell better than those not carried by distributors. Thus, including sales in any capacity favors those products that have the marketing and distribution channels to get their products into the public spotlight. [/QUOTE]
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